The counsel in the book's introduction and the prayers at the end of the tales have been quoted for centuries. Each saying is given in English with the Turkish original. Download any of them as a card to share.
A world of comings and goings, a world whose end is death.
Turkish: Gelimli gidimli dünya, son ucu ölümlü dünya.
No work goes well unless it begins in God's name.
Turkish: Allah Allah demeyince işler onmaz.
A daughter learns from what she sees her mother do, a son from what he sees his father do.
Turkish: Kız anadan görmeyince öğüt almaz, oğul atadan görmeyince sofra çekmez.
A child is what a person raises, as dear as one of their two eyes.
Turkish: Oğul kişinin yetiridir, iki gözünün biridir.
Put a bridle on a black donkey and it still won't become a mule.
Turkish: Kara eşek başına gem vursan katır olmaz.
Old cotton won't make cloth, and an old enemy won't become a friend.
Turkish: Köhne pambuk bez olmaz, kocabilen düşman dost olmaz.
However much snow falls, it won't last till summer; the green meadow won't last till autumn.
